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If you have taken a hiatus from your fitness program it's difficult to get inspired to get into your training regimen again. What you will need to do is set some practical achievable "written"goals to help push you.

The main reason I say "written" is because if you don't jot your goals in a notebook your resolutions are just wishes. Studies have demonstrated over and over again that writing your goals down is powerful.

Let us look at a few sample situations. If you would like to get back into running, walk as much as possible to begin with. Depending upon your level of usual fitness you might only start with only fifteen or twenty minutes. If you have some level of exercise begin with 30 minutes and slowly intensify it.

Once you have been walking for a couple of weeks you can ease back into running by alternating walking and jogging. Start to walk for ten minutes and run for five minutes and so on. As your fitness level increases and your discomfort decreases increase the jogging until you are running again for atleast 30 minutes once again.

If you have been involved in weight training in the past and have taken a time-out of more than a couple of months it would be a good idea to slowly ease back into it.

When you are weight training, if you push too hard too early you may perhaps wind up damaging supporting tendons and ligaments. The trick is definitely not to hurry in trying to try to do the same routine that you were doing but doing less sets.

What I do after a lengthy time-out is go to the gym and use the stationary bike for 15-2o minutes to begin with to warm my body up. Next, I may decide on only one body part each day day to exercise. If you are an older individual or have a larger frame you might want to remain on this type of program even following your initial break-in period.

Let's look at training the upper body for example. If I was able to bench press 300 pounds before I took a break I will start my first work out with 135 pounds and do 3 or 4 sets of high reps in the 15-20 range. Fine-tune your weights to match your preferences. After that I will do 3 sets of flat dumbbell flyes yet again with higher reps so that you don't put too much stress on my tendons and ligaments.

Stick to these same rules for all body parts and increase the weights and reps little by little and within a month you will be right back to intense weight training again and working towards your goals - reducing your body fat and learning how to get a six pack.

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